46%

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28%

of voters of UKIP. the most eurosceptic British party, want Britain to stay in the European Union.
— YouGov

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74%

of the British public think mobile phones should be confiscated from pupils during lessons in schools. Education Secretary Nicky Morgan adds she wants wi-fi blackspots to be created in classrooms.
— Survation; Huffington Post

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25

British citizens were accused in France of people smuggling or human trafficking in 2015 (as of 13 July). There were 20 people in 2014
— FCO's FoI response

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44%

is an increase in how much people in the UK spent on gyms between May/June 2014 and May/2015. Spending on food routinely rose in the weeks before signing up for membership
— Cardlytics; Financial Times

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62

Peers in the House of Lords did not vote once in the 2010-2015 parliament. However, they claimed £360,000 in expenses.
— Electoral Reform Society

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641

people died in accidents in Luxembourg in 2013. In other words, one person died of ill fortune every 34 hours.
— Health Ministry

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200

million euros were spent by Germany on the G7 summit in Bavaria in June 2015, including €4.5m on air transportation of guests and €80,000 on logo design.
— Government's response to the Left Party's inquiry; Rheinische Post, Spiegel

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34632

people were cremated in Belgium in the first half of 2015. This is an increase of 12%.
— National Federation of Funeral Directors; De Standaard

Spain has finally got its first fully functioning government since December 2015 when no party achieved a majority and about

Photo of the Day

08/07/2017That awkward moment when you recognise that fiction so perfectly and accurately depicts what is yet to come. The House of Cards scene in 2015 and the real meeting of Russian and US presidents at the G20 summint in 2017. Credits: Twitter

Australians are fleet of foot, we don’t muck around… we will move as quickly as the UK is able to moveMalcolm TurnbullAustralian Prime Minister
- answering the question on the ability of his country to speedily agree a free trade deal with the UK; Sky News

Quotations

Theresa May sounded a bit like the white witch from the chronicles of Narnia, promising always winter but never ChristmasWes StreetingBritish Labour MP
- quoting a Labour Party member about British Prime Minister Theresa May's campaign style during the 2017 general election; PoliticsHome

Quotations

Married or divorced, but not something in between. We are not on Facebook, with ‘It’s complicated’ as a statusXavier BettelPrime Minister of Luxembourg on the EU-UK relations
- The Financial Times

Quotations

Creating a monetary union is a little bit like invading Russia. At first, there is rapid progress, as the French troops, Napoleon or the Wehrmacht found when they stormed the country, taking large tracts of land without much resistance. Then slowly, as the heavy winter sets in, the Cossacks and the Russian partisans start blowing up your convoys. Eventually you end up with blood on the snow and a hasty retreatYanis VaroufakisFormer Finance Minister of Greece
- The Australian Journal of Political Economy

Quotations

Europe does not operate like the dancing procession of Echternach – famous beyond Luxembourg’s borders – where the participants take two steps ahead and jump one step backJean-Claude JunckerPresident of the European Commission
- replying in an interview with the Bild on the question if Europe can take a step back in integration

Feature Stories

The Volyn Czechs

After Donbas, the national minorities question has become a taboo subject for Ukraine. Neither official Kiev nor diaspora representatives feel any desire to publically discuss what has the slightest hypothetical chance of provoking ethnic aggravation. But life goes on. And just as before there are people of many various minority groups living in Ukraine. This time we decided to talk about the historical and contemporary fate of the Volyn Czechs.

Decommunisation in Ukraine

Since proclaiming independence in 1991, Ukraine has steadily progressed down the path of building a consolidated nation-state based on the culture, values, traditions and political norms of the country’s titular ethnic group – Ukrainians. Over time, the struggle against communist ideology and the Soviet legacy has gradually turned into the eradication and revision of elements of the past related to Russian history and culture.

By the Numbers

The immigration debate in Europe is heavily politicised. Many Europeans berate their leaders for failing to help Syrian refugees enough while others lambast them for giving in to pressure and admitting hordes of itinerants in to destroy their culture and suck their economies dry. This article takes a look at the actual numbers to see what Europe truly is: cold-hearted and cruel or generous to a fault.

A CRITICAL THRESHOLD

Turkey is now hosting nearly 2 million Syrian refugees, the world’s greatest number. The majority of them are located in the five border provinces of Gaziantep, Hatay, Kilis, Mardin, and Şanliurfa where they now make up about 10% of the local population. This is our first, introductory, article in a series on Syrian refugees in Turkey.

FAILURE STORY

Euromaidan. Resistance

Every political struggle has two sides. The first part of our epic two-episode story (Birth of a Myth) recalled the evolution of Euromaidan from a separate set of ideas into a unified, meaningful and purposeful movement, as it created its own culture, symbolism, and logic. The second part looks at the other side of barricades: those who resisted calls to give up in November 2013 – February 2014.

Birth of a Myth

In a name, this is where the difference lies between an anonymous, accidental protest and a historical event. Winter 2013/14 in Ukraine has drawn lots of comparisons – from Neron to nowdays. It had the name – the Revolution of Dignity – that should herald its unique historical role: it should be remembered by living people and future generations as a turning point in the national history.

European Parliament elections

Eighth European Parliament elections were held on 22-25 May 2014. In every of 28 Member States, their outcomes were defined by a complex group of factors that had not largely derived from European issues. Those national nuances are hard to trace in post-election pan-European generalisations, but they are evident if the experience of every single country is zoomed in. In this project, we report statistics and analysis from all EU Member States.

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